# CPT 90833

> Medicare paid $66.24 for CPT 90833 in the office (non-facility) setting and $65.52 in a facility under the Q3 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2016. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2016, when it increased 0.2%.

## What it is

A block of talk therapy delivered during the same appointment as a medical evaluation, most often a medication-management visit with a psychiatrist. The therapy time is counted separately from the medical work and runs roughly half an hour. This is the shortest of the three therapy-with-visit time bands; the longer ones cover roughly 45 and 60 minutes of therapy. It is always reported alongside the visit code, never on its own.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2016 (2016 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2016
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $66.24
- Facility national allowed amount: $65.52
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.50
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.29
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.27
- Malpractice RVU: 0.06
- Conversion factor: 35.8043
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2016)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16c.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU16_V0517.csv, row 14,802
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/90833/2016/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/90833/2016/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:56+00:00